Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Renesas Introduces Small SoCs for LCD Digital TVs with Full HD Support for the North American Market

Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of two new
compact and power efficient system-on-chip (SoC) products, the
R8A66983BG and R8A66980BG, that integrate in a single package the main signal processing functions, such as video and audio processing,and high-picture quality required in LCD digital TVs for the North American market.

The R8A66983BG SoC supports full HD, and the R8A66980BG SoC supports
WXGA.

The new products have a mounting area of 17 x 17 millimeters (mm),
reduced by approximately 45 percent from that of Renesas Electronics'
existing SoC products, making the R8A66983BG device the smallest SoC
in the industry to provide full HD support for LCD digital TVs for
the North American market, incorporate enhancements to the pin
configuration, etc., allowing the use of a two-layer system board
rather than a four-layer board, which contributes to more compact and
low-cost systems overall, and comply with the Energy Star 4.0
international power efficiency standard, making possible even lower
power consumption.

Renesas Electronics currently mass produces the R8J66977BG (with full
HD support) and R8J66975BG (with WXGA support) SoC products for LCD
digital TVs for the North American market. These SoCs integrate on a
single chip the main signal processing functions and high-picture
quality, from demodulation of the digital broadcast signal to signal
output to the LCD panel, enabling more compact product design and also
reducing the number of external memory (DRAM) chips required from two
to one, due to their powerful processing capability. These SoC
products also effectively lower the total system cost. And now,
Renesas Electronics' new R8A66983BG and R8A66980BG SoCs deliver
greater miniaturization while reducing both cost and power consumption
even further.

Samples of Renesas Electronics' new R8A66983BG and R8A66980BG SoCs are
scheduled to be available starting December 2010, with a suggested
price of US$23 and US$19 in 1-piece quantities, respectively. Mass
production is scheduled to begin starting February 2011 with a
combined volume of 600,000 units per month projected by August 2011.